Cryptozoology Archive

A newly discovered species of tarantula is poisonous, can swim underwater and has overrun the Australian town of Maningrida. Time for another killer spider movie? In 2006, schoolchildren on a field trip in Maningrida, a town 310 miles (500 km) east of Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory,…

There is no doubt that Australia’s most famous cryptid ape is the Yowie. It resembles Bigfoot in both size and appearance to an incredibly close degree. It stands around seven to ten feet tall and is covered in a thick coat of hair. Far less famous, though…

A couple of days ago I received in the mail (thanks to editor Phyllis Galde) copies of the two most recent issues of Fate magazine. Like many print-based publications on the world of the paranormal, Fate has felt the brunt of the electronic age. It’s very good,…

If anyone has an audience with Pope Francis in the near future, ask the pontiff what it means when fish fall from the sky or rise up in gigantic form from the sewers. If his white pointy hat shoots straight up into the sky, we’re in trouble…

If you’re afraid of normal-sized rats and mice, you’re probably terrified of really big rats and mice. Not those cute South American capybaras in the zoo that look like gerbil balloons. We’re talking sewer rats that can lift their own manhole covers. Field mice big enough to…

The state of Illinois is known for the city of Chicago, corrupt politics, and some of the best pizza in the United States. It was the home of four presidents, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama, although Reagan was the only president to…

Loveland is a city in southwest Ohio, USA that has a population of around 12,000, and which was settled back in 1795. It’s a small, picturesque place, filled with mountains of history and cool, old buildings. Then there are Loveland’s resident frog-people. Yes, you did read that…

The story of the so-called Jersey Devil is almost as legendary as the tales that surround such famous monsters as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Chupacabra. It’s a very strange saga that dates back to 1735 and to the heart of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens,…

Big cat fans are mourning the extinction of the eastern cougar (Puma concolor couguar) after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it is removing the big cat from the endangered species list because it hasn’t found any credible evidence of the existence of one in at…

Infrasound is an extremely low frequency sound, one which is below the 20HZ mark, and which is undetectable to the human ear. A number of animals use infrasound as a means to communicate with each other. The long list includes giraffes, whales, and elephants. It’s a form…

What do you do when a complete stranger tells you they have seen a very odd-looking animal roaming around the fringes of New York’s Central Park? Well, you listen carefully to what the witness has to say, and you do your best to come to some meaningful…

Nineteen-thirty-three was certainly the year in which Nessie fever erupted in spectacular style. One year earlier, however, there was a deeply strange occurrence at Loch Ness, Scotland; it’s one that is very often overlooked or ignored. The reason why is easy to fathom. It is at extreme…